This is the endless search for the 23 Enigma, people who are fascinated with the number call themselves 23rdians,
Key Points
Here are only some of the meanings of number 23
1. Building Blocks of Numbers.
hundred twenty-three is one of the most commonly cited prime numbers—a number that can only be divided by itself and one. 23 is the lowest prime that consists of consecutive digits. Primes have been described as the “atoms” of mathematics—the building blocks of the world of numbers. An American businessman has put up a US $1 million (£500,000) prize for the first mathematician to find a pattern in primes-a problem known as the Riemann hypothesis.
2. Jim Carrey.
The number has been the subject of not one but two films: the 1998 German movie, 23, and The Number 23, starring Jim Carrey. Each has a main character obsessed with the number.
3. Favourite Number 23.
John Forbes Nash, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who was the subject of the film, A Beautiful Mind, starring Russell Crowe, was obsessed with 23. It featured prominently in his battle with mental illness. His breakdown began when he claimed that a photograph of Pope John XXIII on the cover of Life magazine was in fact him, the proof being that 23 was his favourite number. Nash published 23 scientific articles.
4. Hiroshima 23.
More freaky numerical coincidences: Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species was published in 1859 – 1+8+5+9 = 23. Two divided by three makes 0.666 recurring (allegedly – actually it makes 0.6666666667). The Hiroshima bomb was dropped at 8.15am – 8+15= 23.
5. 23rdians.
23rdians are a group of people who subscribe to the mystical power of 23 and see it in multiple combinations throughout daily life.
6. Status of number 23.
The Ancient Chinese believed numbers conveyed sexuality—evens for the feminine and odds for the masculine. They considered prime numbers to be the most masculine, conferring special status on number 23, which is made up of two consecutive prime numbers and the only even prime number—two.
7. Unknown Fate of 23.
In the disaster movie, Airport, the bomber has seat 23. The number of crosses on Calvary at the end of the Monty Python film, The Life of Brian, is 23. In Die Hard With A Vengeance, a train derails at subway station 23. The lead characters in the Coen brothers’ film, The Big Lebowski, always used Lane 23 at the bowling alley. In the television series Lost, one of the combinations of six numbers that haunt the characters and they have to input on a computer to avoid an unknown fate is 23.
8. 911/23.
The terrorist attacks on America on 11 September 2001 have been held up as one of the most portentous examples of the disturbing power of 23. The figures in the date (9+11+2+0+0+1) add up to 23. The independent US commission which investigated the attacks found the date had been chosen randomly by the hijackers and had originally been planned for later in the year. Alternative explanations for the date included the taking over of Palestine by Britain in 1922 and the fact that 911 is the US emergency code.
9. The Number 23.
Few hold 23 in more esteem than the followers of Discordianism, a self-declared religion based on the premise that discord and chaos are the building blocks of life. For Discordianists, 23 is the Holy Number and a tribute to the goddess Eris, who surveys a world of chaos. The mantra invoked by Discordianists for the Holy Number is “Invert The Pyramid”. If you invert the sentence one letter at a time – eg “dinvert the pyramid”, “id invert the pyram” etc – it takes 22 chants, finished by the line “The Pyramid Inverts” to make 23. The last line is called “the final energy releaser”. Discordianism is described by some followers as “a joke disguised as a religion disguised as a joke”.
10. Wearing 23 Number.
sports stars have developed a particular affinity (and aversion) for 23. Michael Jordan, the American basketball player, wore the number throughout his career and inspired many copycat fans of wardrobe vigintitriplicity. The best known is former England captain David Beckham, who swapped his number seven Manchester United jersey for number 23 when he joined Real Madrid. Beckham, who said it was in deference to Jordan, is expected to continue wearing 23 when he joins the LA Galaxy this summer. But the number is not always a harbinger of sporting good fortune. Manchester City have not assigned squad number 23 to any player since 2003, after the last incumbent, Marc Vivien Foe, collapsed and died while playing for Cameroon on June 26, 2003. Marcus Trescothick, the England cricket player, wears number 23 and was Australian bowler Shane Warne’s 600th test wicket. Warne also wears 23.
11. Bible Vs 23 Number.
The Bible does not let 23 pass without conferring some significance upon it, at least to students of the book. Although the Old Testament is unspecific, it is widely held that Adam and Eve had 23 daughters. The 23rd verse of the first chapter of Genesis brings the act of creation to a close, while the 23rd chapter of the book of Genesis deals entirely with death, namely that of Abraham’s wife, Sarah. The most famous and most quoted of the psalms is number 23, “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside the still waters. ”
12. Half come from the mother, other half come from the father.
Each parent contributes 23 chromosomes to the start of human life. Chromosomes come in pairs. Normally, each cell in the human body has 23 pairs of chromosomes
13. Julius Caesar.
The most detailed account of the assassination of Julius Caesar, written by Nicolaus of Damascus, claims numerous enemies stabbed the Roman emperor 23 times. The wounds ranged from superficial to mortal.
14. William Shakespeare, Kurt Cobain.
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 23, 1564. He died 52 years later on his birthday, April 23, 1616. Kurt Cobain, the god of grunge, was born in 1967 and died in 1994 – 1 + 9 + 6 + 7 = 23, 1 + 9 + 9 + 4 = 23.
15. Star Wars.
In the science fantasy saga, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Chewbacca sneak into detention block AA23 to rescue Princess Leia. The rescue attempt is botched and Leia escapes only by dodging Stormtroopers’ laserfire. A police robot called 23 is included in Star Wars director George Lucas’ first film, THX 1138.
16. Grand Masters.
The Knights Templar, the order of soldier monks who eventually fell foul of the Vatican and have been the subject of conspiracy theories about the Holy Grail, had 23 Grand Masters.
17. Numbers Chapter 23 : Verse 23.
The first morse code transmission, “What hath God wrought?” was from the Bible passage Numbers 23:23. In telegraphers’ code, 23 means “break the line”.
18. 50% 23.
The Birthday Paradox states that a group of 23 randomly-selected people is the smallest number where there will be a probability higher than 50 per cent that two people will share the same birthday.
19. Flight 23.
The author William Burroughs was obsessed with 23. While living in Tangiers, he met a Captain Clark who ran a ferry between Spain and Morocco. One day, Clark told Burroughs that he had been doing the route for 23 years without incident. Later that day, the ferry sank, killing the captain. While Burroughs was thinking about the incident, a radio bulletin announced the crash of a Flight 23 on the New York-Miami route. The pilot was another Captain Clark. The events prompted an obsession which saw Burroughs record every occurrence of the number 23 for the rest of his life.
20. 23 Days of 23 Months.
The disbanded pop act KLF are one of several musical sources of 23-related lore. The two men behind KLF – Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty – were once known as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, which has 23 letters and comes from the novels of Robert Anton Wilson, another 23 obsessive. A police car used for the video of the KLF’s number one, “Doctorin’ The Tardis”, had 23 painted on the roof, their final performance lasted 23 minutes and they incinerated £1m on a remote Scottish island on 23 August 1994. Psychic TV, another cult act, released 23 live albums on the 23rd day of 23 consecutive months.
21. W=23.
“W” is the 23rd letter of the Latin alphabet. It has two points down and three points up. White supremacists use 23 to represent “W” as a mark of racial superiority.
22. 23 skidoo.
“23 skidoo” is an American catchphrase from the early 20th century, meaning to make a sharp exit. It was used as the title of a poem by the occultist Aleister Crowley, another 23 aficionado. But some believe its origins lie in Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities, where the old woman counting the daily victims of the guillotine calls out “23” as the hero is beheaded in the last chapter.
23. Biorhythm (pseudoscience).
The average human physical biorhythm is 23 days, Typically a 23-day physical cycle.
Some other searches for the number 23:
Represent “the principle of organisation 3, acting on the differentiation of the world into spirit and matter 20, to allow precisely the incarnation of the spirit in the matter, 2 + 3 = 5”, according to R. Allendy.
The Roman Catholic Church counts on the whole 23 dogmas: twelve are included in the symbol of the apostles and eleven have been defined by the Church. The last is that of the Assumption – 1950. The Virgin Mary, in her appearances in Amsterdam at the Netherlands, 1945 to 1984, prophesied however that a last “final dogma of Mary” would be adopted by the Catholic Church that would proclaim her “Co-Redeemer, Mediator and Advocate”, which would summarize and explains the theology of Mary and “would crown” Our Lady. This last dogma, added to the 23 others to give 24, would summarize the whole of the doctrine of the Church.
The Cabalists affirm that, in present times, a letter is missing from the Torah. This letter of the alphabet does not appear at all in our “eon” and is also not used in the Torah. The primitive divine alphabet and all the Torah are based on a series of 23 letters, and not 22, which one has become invisible to us and will reappear only during the next terrestrial period. And it is only because of this letter that we miss everywhere that we read in the Torah the positive and negative precepts. Each negative aspect is in relation to this missing letter of the primitive alphabet.
- circulation of the blood through the human body takes 23 seconds.
- number of articulations in the human arm is 23.
- 23 axioms of the geometry of Euclid.
- ovule and the spermatozoon are composed of both the 23 chromosomes.
- number 23 is used 14 times in the Bible, and the OT.
- words “leprous,” “dragon and “blasphemy” are used 23 times in the Bible.
- 23rd Psalm: “The Lord is my shephard and I shall not want…”
- September 11, 2001, was a 23/5 day. 9/11 was in 2001, and 9+11+2+0+0+1 = 23.
- The end of the world 23/12/2012 – 20+1+2=23
As you see, the row is endless. Some people say the 23 is only a number…maybe it is…I think it will be whatever we want it to be…we will find him the meaning in every aspect of our life if we search for it hard enough.
